Software Engineer IV

Job Description: Overview

Seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain internal tools, automate workflows, and set technical best practices for Meta's legal department. This role is ideal for someone who has a strong attention to detail, and enjoys collaborating with a variety of technical and non-technical cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack internal tools to streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency.
• Automate processes and workflows using modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Hack).
• Build and enhance backend systems to support data management and operational needs.
• Establish and advise on technical best practices for software development, including code quality, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g., attorneys, Data Science, Data Engineering) to gather requirements and provide technical counsel.
• Create and maintain internal documentation for tools, systems, and workflows to ensure knowledge sharing and operational continuity.
• Stay up to date on new technologies and internal systems relevant to operational excellence, and help non-technical partners understand their capabilities and limitations.
• This role will be responsible for supporting the Legal team. This includes full-stack.

Skills Required:

• 8 Years of Experience
• Expert in C++, C, Java, Hack, or equivalent non-pythonic language (Java and PHP experience strongly preferred)
• Expert in Python
• Experience developing command-line interfaces and shell scripts (e.g., Bash) in Unix/Linux environments
• Strong self-starter with expert collaboration skills; experience leading cross-functional efforts to build tooling end-to-end and with minimal oversight (just general high-level guidance)
• Experience serving as a technical liaison, and working with a variety of non-technical stakeholders to translate business/functional requirements into technical requirements
• Experience with QA testing
• Strong organization and documentation
• Experience developing and maintaining monitoring & alerting systems, serving as an oncall, and fixing issues as they arise
• Strong written and verbal comms, with experience developing technical documentation, incident reports, etc.

Additional Preferences:

• Based on the West Coast, ideally someone who would be interested in occasionally coming into our SF office (but not required; fully remote is okay)
• Experience building enterprise web apps and internal tools end-to-end
• Slight preference for someone with experience working on projects in the legal / privacy / security space, but this is not a requirement.